Game apparatus



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C. E. PEGG GAME APPARATUS Filed Aug. 13, 1923 Each ermw'mup [NI/EH10useful Improvements in Game Apparatus Patented Aug. 4, 1925.

CARRIE E. PEGG, OF ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA.

GAME APPARATUS.

Application filed August 13, 1923. Serial No. 656,996.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARRIE E. Pnoo, a citizen of the United States,residing at St. Paul, in the county of Ramsey and State of Minnesota,have invented certain new and 7 of-which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to game apparatuses, and the general object is toprovide'an amusing and attractive device involving a clock, a cat and afruit by which to foretell the future.

The apparatus comprises a square box or casing in which'the device mayhave all of its parts concealed during shipping and storage and when setup the box is set enclways and used as a base for the clock face whilethe clock pendulum appears as hanging in the box and the box cover isplaced out of the waywithin the box back of the pendulum. V

In the accompanying drawing:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation showing the apparatus set up ready for use.

Fig. 2 is a right hand side or edge elevation of Fig. 1 but showing thecover of the box both in its closing position and in dotted lines in itsidle position the same as in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of the upper portion of Fig. 1 on a reducedscale.

Fig. 4: is a rearview of the pendulum of the clock.

Fig. 5 is a face view of one of the 12 cards of which the pendulumweight is composed.

Referring to the drawing by reference numerals, 6 designates a table,shelf or mantel piece upon which the apparatus may. stand.

7 is the casing, shipping box and base of the apparatus and is acomplete box having two of its opposite top edges projected a littlehigher thanthe box and provided with grooves 8 receiving the ends of theslidable cover 9. The other two edges of the cover, when closed, findsupport on inward projections 10 provided near the top of the box. Thecover is no wider than the interior of the box wherefore it may bepulled out of the grooves Sand be placed inside the box near the bottomthereof in the slanting position 9 in Fig. 2 so as to not obstruct theview of the pendulum, which is composed of a bunch of fortune tellingcards 11 resembling, in outline, a pumpkin or an orange or similar fruithaving a stem 12 secured in a loop 13 of a hook 14 which is hooked intoa hole 15 of a rod 16, whose upper end is .ing spun by a player.

suspended from a peg 17 fixed in the rear side of a clock dial 18.

Said dial is provided with the numbers of 12 hours and has a dialpointer 19, preferably provided with a finger catch 20. The shaft 21 ofthe pointer is smoothly journaled in the dial and back of the dialcarries a weighted arm 22 counter-balancing the pointer to make it stayat any point to which itinay be swung by its momentum after beprinted onthe dial with a mouse on it.

In the upwardly turned end of the box are apertures 23 and 2 1 in whichare placed respectively the legs or projections 23 of the dial and 2 1of a preferably horse-shoe shaped brace 25, which is'pasted or otherwisesecured to a flexible pad 26, which has its upper end secured to theback of the neck of a cat head 27. Said head, as well as the paws 28,hind legs 29 and tail 30 are pref erably stamped integral with the dialand painted a most natural color of a black cat, while the eyes 31 arecolored to resemble real cat's eyes, so that it appears as if a cat isholding the clock. .VVhen the apparatus is set up the projecting lugs23*, 24L are clinched or bent at the inside of the box, as shown in Fig.2, but as the bent parts are preferably made of soft sheet metal theymay be bent and unbent many times and are almost in fiatposition whenthe dial and the brace 25 are placed into the ibOX 7 for shipping orstorage, as is also the Pendulum, and the cover is pushed into thegrooves 8 in Fig. 2.

To make the articlemore comical and to indicate upon its cover what thedevice is, a small clock dial 32 is printed upon the cover and above itappear the words Let the clock foretell the future and a cat 38 a pearsadjacent thereto, as if it can aid in telling the future. 7

Fig. 4 shows the preferable directions printed upon the rear side of thependulum, while the front side of it appears as an apple, orange, tomatoor the like, but preferably as a pumpkin, both in shape and color. Thependulum rod is so light and has so many loose joints that the weightmay easily be swung toward a player, and the cards spread apart and thecontents of either card read. The proper card is found by its number,near the stem 12, for the cards are all numbered from 1 to 12,corresponding to the 12 hour numbers on the clock face, and

19* is an hour hand that shown in 'Fig. 5.

bear various informations or answers to wishes the player makes beforespinning the dial polnter or clock hand.

As for the contents printed on each card.

a whirling motion and waits tillit stops. 1 Suppose it stopsat ornearest to-the-hour number 11 on the dial he then turns to card No. 11and reads its contents, which may be 01', if the pointer stops at ornearest to the hour 7 on the dial, he must turn to card 7 which may readabout like this: Asailors life is the life for you, Or the wide worldover to roam;

Be on your way most selfish man with never a thought for ahome. Yourwish will .not

' come true.

The more or less interesting epistles. thus printed on the cards arepreferably in poetry and arranged for young ladies on the cards havingeven numbers and for bers.

' I prefer to give the clock face and the pendulum an orange color,thestems 12 1a green color, the cat a black colorand the circular spacesA, B, and O on the dial I prefer to make of (grey, redand ,yellow colorrespectively, though I reserve the right to use other colors.

This apparatus is of the class-in which ornamental 'design is soinseparably mixed up with the structural or mechanical parts to make thelatter more useful as'an interesting game apparatus that I mustmake myclaims accordingly, although I consider the utility ofthe apparatus tobe the predominating feature of the invention.

What I claim is: i

1. An apparatus of the kind described comprising a forwardly openinghollow base, a clock dial mounted on the top of base and a pendulumsuspended from the rear side of the dial down into the hollow base, acounter balanced dial pointer journaled in the center of the dial, andadapted to be spun by a 'touch of the hand, the

weight of the pendulum simulating a pumpkm, and being made up of aseries of cards having the contour. of the fruit and having each anumber corresponding to one of the hour indicating, numbers on the dial,and

each card containingialsoga dilferent answer to wishes madebyptheplaymgperson startingthe dial pomter into rotation.

2. The :structurespecified in claim 1, in

which the contents of eachcard is especially adapted for either ayoung,lady or a young man, and the cards are numbered accordingly, evennumbers for. onesex and .odd numbers for the other sex. I

3. The structure specified in claim 1,.i11 which the dial is mainly thesame color as the fruitrepresentingpthe pendulum weight of the clockandcontaining the cards.

4. The stnucture specified, in claim 1, said base havingthe form .ofabox in which to pack the dial andpendulum, and said dial beingdetachable from the top of theqibase, .and the. base or box having acover closing it duringstorage iandj'shipping, said cover beingdetachable and of a size to go into the box near the bottom thereof whenthe apparatus is set up,,and' the box having means for holding the coverin closed position.

5. ,The structure; specified in claim 1, in i which the .dial has atiitsedge projections representing the head ofa catand the paws and tail; ofa cat, the lower ones of said ,projections .adapted for detaohablesecuring to thebase,,and a brace hin edly attached to the top ofthe-hack of the ial and extending downward and secured to the rearportion of thetop of the base, said. brace and the dial being spreadapart near the base.

6. The structure'specified in claim 1 said rotatable pointerrepresenting the minute hand of the clock,landan hour hand painted orprinted on, thedial, and having the picture of a mousesu on the dial.

In testimony w ereof I afiixmy signatures CARRIE E. PEGG.

